Whoa! Am I understanding this correctly? Are you saying your local
FSDO office is making their own rules? I thought their job was to
enforce national rules directly from the FAA. How does that work??? If
I'm a transient pilot from my FSDO area to your FSDO area, how I am
supposed to know your FSDO rules? I must be reading something into what
you are writing that you really don't mean.

Now, of course, I realize there is a "catch all" in the FARs. Goes
something like operating in a safe manner. A FSDO office could
interpret that to mean by not tying down before propping is operating in
a dangerous or careless manner.

Scott


jls wrote:



Uh, Michael, it is both written and spoken within the radius of our FSDO
here and others. I didn't say it was an FAR. Of course the general rule
about keeping an aircraft under control is more general, but hand-propping
outside of FSDO guidelines is considered the basis for violation, especially
if a catastrophe occurs.

That said, I am glad to know no such rule exists in the jurisdiction or
vicinity of your airport.